http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=HAMAS Sun, 19 May 2013 22:07:27 -0400 Liveleak http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/u/u/ll2/logo.gif http://www.liveleak.com/browse?q=HAMAS Wed, 15 May 2013 05:08:48 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ab_1368608704 nutsflopped The axis of terrorism includes Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas. Exporting its radical Islamic agenda, Iran provides Hezbollah and Hamas with funds, weapons, guerilla training. This is something you should know before stating any political opinions about the middle east. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1ab_1368608704 nutsflopped Axis of Terrorism: Iran, Hezbollah and <span class="highlight">Hamas</span> Hamas, Islamic Jihad,Jihad, Terrorists,Murder,Iran,Nuclear,AK 47,RPG, war,World War 3, 9/11,The end of life we know today, Fri, 17 May 2013 16:32:10 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8d4_1368822371 english-patriot33 http://www.barenakedislam.com/2013/05/17/15-palestinian-muslims-with-ties-to-terroror-group-hamas-arrested-on-charges-of-running-a-multi-million-dollar-cigarette-smuggling-ring-in-new-york/ http://news.yahoo.com/york-says-breaks-cigarette-smuggling-ring-linked-militants-003952926.html 15 Palestinian MUSLIMS with ties to terroror group Hamas, arrested on charges of running a multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling ring in New York "We don't know where all of that money went, but what we do know is deeply troubling," Schneiderman said. "We know that some members of this group have ties to very dangerous people, we know they were arrested with weapons, we know that they made tens of millions of dollars but so far we have found only a fraction of that." Investigators are still tracking where much of the money ended up, but they noted similar rings in the past have funneled money to Hamas, the Islamist government in Gaza, and Hezbollah, the militant Shi'ite group based in Lebanon, both of which are considered to be terrorist organizations by the United States. The traffickers had alleged links to known terrorists, including Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind cleric serving a life sentence for a conspiracy to blow up New York City landmarks. That combination has raised concerns about where the money went. "We know they made tens of millions of dollars but so far we've only found a fraction of that," state Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman said while announcing enterprise corruption and other charges against 16 people, all Palestinian MUSLIM immigrants. In a 224-count indictment, the men are charged with enterprise corruption, money laundering and other tax crimes, for which each defendant faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted. In addition to costing New York State and New York City an estimated $80 million in lost sales tax revenue, the ring generated at least $10 million in profit, Schneiderman and Kelly said. Authorities said the ring was headed by two brothers, Basel Ramadan, 42, and Samir Ramadan, 40, both of Ocean City, Maryland, who ran a couple of local Subway restaurant franchises. Investigators said they found $1.4 million stashed in Basel Ramadan's home, some of it stuffed in black plastic trash bags, and three handguns following his arrest on Thursday. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8d4_1368822371 english-patriot33 15 Palestinian MUSLIMS with ties to terroror group <span class="highlight">Hamas</span>, arrested on charges of running a multi-million-dollar cigarette smuggling ring in New York islam, muslims, jihad, terrorists, pedophiles, outlaw islam, Sat, 18 May 2013 08:45:49 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a7_1368879941 Detroit Iron Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is all too typical of a Muslim world where children drink in conspiracy theories with mama's milk. "Peace will come," Golda Meir once famously remarked, "when the Arabs start to love their children more than they hate us." The obstacle to peace was not actually Arabs as such, but Muslims who had imbibed Islam's doctrine of jihad and hatred of non-believers and primarily Jews - a hatred so intense that it drives people to prefer death (and murder) to life. And as we have seen recently with the monstrous grandstanding of Mama Tsarnaeva, this hatred is passed on in some Muslim families - and Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is by no means the only mother from hell. Islamic supremacists avowedly and proudly love death. Jihad mass murderer Mohamed Merah said that he "loved death more than they loved life." Nigerian jihadist Abubakar Shekau said : "I'm even longing for death, you vagabond."Ayman al-Zawahiri's wife advised Muslim women : "I advise you to raise your children in the cult of jihad and martyrdom and to instil in them a love for religion and death." And as one jihadist put it , "We love death. You love your life!" And another: "The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death." That was from Afghan jihadist Maulana Inyadullah . Ultimately, this idea comes from the Qur'an itself: "Say (O Muhammad): O ye who are Jews! If ye claim that ye are favoured of Allah apart from (all) mankind, then long for death if ye are truthful." - Qur'an 62:6 This love of death is instilled in children. A Muslim child preacher recently taunted those he has been taught to hate most: "Oh Zionists, we love death for the sake of Allah, just as much as you love life for the sake of Satan." This young man's mother was probably much like the quintessential mother from hell, Mariam Farhat, or Umm Nidal (mother of Nidal), a Palestinian parliamentarian who died in March. No one more fully embodied the Hamas ethos - and the ethos of infanticide that permeates contemporary Palestinian culture as a whole - than Umm Nidal, a mother who willed the death of her own children and the children of others. The New York Times in 2006 called her "the mother of three Hamas supporters killed by Israelis." This was a highly tendentious appellation, as the Times report itself made clear when it said that "she bade one son goodbye in a homemade videotape before he stormed an Israeli settlement, killing five people, then being shot dead. She said later, in a much-publicized quotation, that she wished she had 100 sons to sacrifice that way. Known as the 'mother of martyrs,' she was seen in a campaign video toting a gun." Umm Nidal's oldest son Nidal was killed in 2003, and his brother Rawad in 2005 - both as they were involved in jihad actions against Israelis. Muhammad Farhat was the first of her sons to die. In June 2002 he stormed the Atzmona settlement in Israel, firing indiscriminately, murdering five teenagers and wounding twenty others before he himself was killed. Umm Nidal cried out "Allahu Akbar" when she learned of Muhammad's murders and his own death; she "prepared boxes of halva and chocolates, and handed them out to his friends." To those who would reproach her for being heartless, she responded: We cannot stop sacrificing just because we feel pain. What is the meaning of sacrifice? One sacrifices what is precious, not what is of little value. My children are the most precious thing in my life. That is why I sacrificed them for a greater cause - for Allah, who is more precious than them. My son is not more precious than his God, he is not more precious than the places holy to Islam, and he is not more precious than his homeland or his Islam. Not at all. In fact, Mariam Farhat encouraged her other sons to follow in Muhammad's footsteps and become Islamic martyrs themselves by killing Israelis and getting killed in the process: After the martyrdom , my heart was peaceful about Muhammad. I encouraged all my sons to die a martyr's death, and I wish this even for myself. After all this, I prepared myself to receive the body of my son, the pure shahid, in order to look upon him one last time and accept the well-wishers who to us in large numbers and participated in our joy over Muhammad's martyrdom. This monstrous woman, who gloried in blood and murder, should have been shunned by every decent person around her. But apparently there were no such people. She was not only not shunned; she was elected to parliament and celebrated as a heroine. When she died, 4,000 people attended her funeral, including the Hamas prime minister . Her grandchildren recently appeared on Hamas's Al-Aqsa TV . During the show, a child presenter declared: She raised her children from an early age on love of martyrdom for the sake of Allah, as well as on love of the homeland and its defense. We should learn from them. We should wage Jihad and persevere, in order to liberate this land. When one of us is martyred, we say that his life is precious, yet it is a cheap price to pay for the liberation and defense of the homeland. "She raised her children from an early age on love of martyrdom for the sake of Allah" - in other words, on love of death and murder. With mothers like Zubeidat Tsarnaeva and Umm Nidal raising their children in such a way, there will never be peace. http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/05/06/how-mothers-from-hell-raise-their-boys-to-do-evil/?singlepage=true http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a7_1368879941 Detroit Iron How Mothers from Hell Raise Their Boys to Do Evil Mama Tsarnaeva, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva Sat, 18 May 2013 00:23:12 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=01d_1368850647 Detroit Iron by Charles C. Johnson The Department of Homeland Security, which under Secretary Janet Napolitano has shown a keen interest in monitoring and warning about outspoken conservatives, takes a very different approach in monitoring political Islamists, according to a 2011 memo on protecting the free speech rights of pro-Shariah Muslim supremacists. In a checklist obtained by The Daily Caller entitled "Countering Violent Extremism Dos and Don'ts" the DHS's Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties notifies local and national law enforcement officials that it is Obama administration policy to consider specifically Islamic criticism of the American system of government legitimate. This policy stands in stark contrast to the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis' 2009 memo "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment" , which warned of the dangers posed by pro-life advocates, critics of same-sex marriage and groups concerned with abiding by the U.S. Constitution, among others. The advice of the Dos and Don'ts list is far more conciliatory. "Don't use training that equates radical thought, religious expression, freedom to protest, or other constitutionally-protected activity, including disliking the U.S. government without being violent," the manual's authors write in a section on training being "sensitive to constitutional values." The manual, which was produced by an inter-agency working group from DHS and the National Counterterrorism Center, advises, "Trainers who equate the desire for Sharia law with criminal activity violate basic tenets of the First Amendment." The Homeland Security document also seems to discount evidence unearthed by the Justice Department about the aims of some mainstream Muslim organizations, warning law enforcement not to rely on "unsubstantiated theories" and "conspiracies," such as the belief that "many mainstream Muslim organizations have terrorist ties" or are "fronts for Islamic political organizations whose true desire is to establish Sharia law in America." The checklist also advised against using moderate Muslim "trainers who are self-professed 'Muslim reformers'" because they "may further an interest group agenda instead of delivering generally accepted, unbiased information." The manual advises trainees not to assume Muslim Americans are "using democratic processes, like litigation and free speech, to subvert democracy and install Sharia law." In fact, the Justice Department proved that some very prominent Muslim organizations do have terror ties in a 2009 case and that they share the Muslim Brotherhood's goal of Shariah law. "The government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR , ISNA , NAIT , with the Islamic Association for Palestine, and with Hamas," U.S. District Court Judge Jorge Solis said in the July 1, 2009 ruling. Tim Clemente, a former FBI agent who hunted Anwar Al-Awlaki and who has worked with Muslims to help stop terrorist plots, told The Daily Caller the government overdoes its sensitivity. Clemente says that the Muslim community "needs a realization, not necessarily a reformation," that only it can stop terrorist attacks. "Muslims are the ones that should notice this and should nip it in the bud," Clemente told TheDC. "When you see the guy radicalizing and yelling at an imam, do more. Take it to the next level. Don't go turning a blind eye." "While it is true that the vast majority of Muslims, especially in America, will never ever be radicalized, the greatest percentage of those that will commit terrorist acts happen to Muslim," continued Clemente, who was critical of DHS's 2009 report on rightwing groups. Although the two reports originated from different wings of Napolitano's vast Homeland Security bureaucracy, the contrast in their deference to constitutional rights and presumption of innocence is striking. The "Rightwing Extremism" report warned that the economic recession, Barack Obama's election, and the "return of military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating" might lead to a rise in white-power domestic terrorist activity - a threat that, unlike the threat posted by radical Islam, has failed to materialize in the four years since the report was issued. The 2009 report also defined "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also those who reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority and who "are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration." The 2009 report's authors conceded that DHS "has no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence." Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/17/homeland-security-guidelines-advise-deference-to-pro-sharia-muslim-supremacists/#ixzz2TcAgsAMr http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=01d_1368850647 Detroit Iron Homeland Security guidelines advise deference to pro-Shariah Muslim supremacists Department of Homeland Security, Free speech, Islamists, Janet Napolitano, political correctness Fri, 17 May 2013 11:37:55 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1b8_1368804573 euronymus People living in the besieged Gaza Strip have been tucking into bargain buckets thanks to a group of KFC smugglers. The enterprising company arranges delivery of the fried chicken from Egypt, through a network of tunnels which are used to circumvent the blockade around the city. It is not exactly fast food, with some batches held for almost five hours while the Hamas-run tunnels committee examines the paper work. Report by Rob Gillett. Source: ITN News http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1b8_1368804573 euronymus Smuggling KFC to Gaza Strip KFC, Gaza, Strip, smuggling, blockade, Egypt Fri, 17 May 2013 10:31:46 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a0c_1368800021 m16carbine How Qatar seized control of the Syrian revolution By Roula Khalaf and Abigail Fielding-Smith As the Arab world's bloodiest conflict grinds on, Qatar has emerged as a driving force: pouring in tens of millions of dollars to arm the rebels. Yet it also stands accused of dividing them - and of positioning itself for even greater influence in the post-Assad era. FT investigation by Roula Khalaf and Abigail Fielding-Smith A short drive from the rising skyscrapers of Doha's West Bay, emblems of the once-sleepy Qatari capital's frenetic growth, the three-starred flag of the Syrian revolution can be seen fluttering over a modern villa guarded by police cars. The villa is the new Syrian Arab Republic embassy in Qatar , representing not the regime of Bashar al-Assad , but opponents fighting for his removal. It is the only such embassy in the world, inaugurated by a Qatari minister two months ago with the usual diplomatic pomp, after hard lobbying by Qatar led the 22-member Arab League to hand over Syria's seat to the opposition. The diplomats working inside have recourse to neither a government nor a bureaucracy to serve Syrians abroad, lacking even the means to renew a passport. "Maybe soon," mutters a hopeful junior diplomat. But Qatar is not a country that allows details to get in the way of ambition. The opening of the embassy was a theatrical expression of this small, massively rich country's single-minded lurch into Syria's crisis . When it comes to backing Syria's rebels, no one can claim more credit than the gas-rich Gulf state. Whether in terms of armaments or financial support for dissidents, diplomatic manoeuvring or lobbying, Qatar has been in the lead, readily disgorging its gas-generated wealth in the pursuit of the downfall of Assad. Yet, as the Arab world's bloodiest uprising grinds on into its third year, Qatar finds itself pulled into a complicated and fractured conflict, the outcome of which has a decreasing ability to influence, while simultaneously becoming a high-profile scapegoat for participants on both sides. Among the Syrian regime's numerous but fragmented opponents the small Gulf state evokes a surprisingly ambivalent - and often overtly hostile - response. In the shell-blasted areas of rebel-held Syria, few appear to be aware of the vast sums that Qatar has contributed - estimated by rebel and diplomatic sources to be about $1bn, but put by people close to the Qatar government at as much as $3bn. However, a perception is taking root among growing numbers of Syrians that Qatar is using its financial muscle to develop networks of loyalty among rebels and set the stage for influence in a post-Assad era. "Qatar has a lot of money and buys everything with money, and it can put its fingerprints on it," says a rebel officer from the northern province of Idlib interviewed by the FT. Khalid al-Attiyah, Qatar's minister of state for foreign affairs, and the point man on Syria, dismisses this criticism as nothing more than noise. "We're a state, we're mature ... If we were concerned about what people say, we wouldn't be here today and Qatar wouldn't be as prosperous." But Qatar's role in Syria seems uncharacteristically prominent for a country that lacks the diplomatic experience and traditional heavyweight status of a more discreet Saudi Arabia. To some extent, the fact that Qatar is so exposed reflects the reluctance of western governments to intervene in Syria. However, for Qatar, Syria is also the culmination of an opportunistic foreign policy which saw Doha become the unlikely backer of other Arab revolts in north Africa - and a friend of those who emerge as winners, in most cases Islamists. Qatar's ruling family, the al-Thanis, have no ideological or religious affinity with the Islamists - they are simply not choosy about the beliefs held by useful friends. Qatar has supported the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Tunisia's Islamist al-Nahda party, which won the first elections after the popular revolts. Some politicians in the region believe the emir is trying to position himself as the "Islamist Abdel Nasser", as one Arab politician put it, referring to the late Egyptian president and the Arab world's only true pan-Arab leader. Most of Doha's neighbours in the Gulf are hostile to the Islamist trend in the region, but this is of little consequence to a state that takes pleasure in being contrarian. Nor are the al-Thanis embarrassed by the contradictions of an autocracy cheerleading for revolution. "The Qataris say if there's a tsunami coming your way you ride it, not let it hit you," says a western diplomat describing Qatar's attitude towards Islamists. It is this kind of dynamism and risk-taking at an executive level that has enabled Doha to act as a regional power only a few years after being a diplomatic nobody. But the military stalemate of the Syrian uprising, in which more than 70,000 people have died, has also revealed the recklessness and political impotence that ultimately undermine Qatar's objectives. "The Qataris are overextended - their system runs on a few people at the top, and there isn't much in terms of a bureaucracy," comments another diplomat. In the case of Syria, those key players have been the emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, his son and crown prince, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad, the prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim, plus Attiyah, the minister for foreign affairs. As the Qataris have attempted to unite the political opposition by championing the formation of the Syrian National Coalition (the main front) they have been accused of dividing it - just as their efforts to shape a fragmented rebel army into a more coherent form by helping to unify the brigades under one command have contributed to its incoherence. Not all of the criticism is fair. Partly it is driven by the irritation of many Arabs, at both state and street level, with what they see as an ambitious, nouveau riche state overreaching itself. "You can criticise them for hijacking the opposition but who else is helping?" acknowledges an independent-minded Syrian opposition member who, like many others in the region who were interviewed for this article, requested anonymity. But the disapproval levelled at Qatar is pervasive. A senior rebel commander who has dealt with the Qataris suggests that Doha should look long and hard at why its role has also sparked so much animosity. "After two years it is time for everyone involved in Syria to review their actions and engage in self-correction," he says. . . . For Sheikh Hamad, the 61-year-old emir who has ruled Qatar since 1995 after deposing his father, the road to Damascus has involved a spectacular U-turn. It wasn't long ago that Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma were regular visitors to Doha, as guests of the emir and his second wife, Sheikha Moza. Qatari institutions were big investors in Syria, with a $5bn joint holding company set up in 2008 to develop everything from power stations to hotels. The emir also championed the international rehabilitation of Assad during his gradual ostracisation by the US, Europe and his Arab peers; Sheikh Hamad was instrumental in restoring Syrian relations with France in the years before the uprising, when he counted the former president Nicolas Sarkozy as a friend. Back then Syria was part of an alliance - with Iran and Lebanon's Hizbollah - that seemed on the ascendant, and Qatar, with typical pragmatism and opportunism, saw a chance to ride the wave as well as to moderate Assad's policies. When the Syrian revolt erupted in March 2011, Qatar, like Turkey, reacted cautiously; Al Jazeera, the Qatari-owned television channel, was criticised for downplaying the first protests. Behind the scenes, both the emir and crown prince Sheikh Tamim advised Assad against a military solution. But when prime minister Hamad bin Jassim went to visit Assad a month after the outbreak of protests, it became clear to Qatar that the Syrian hardman wanted "to kill people", as bin Jassim recently recalled at a Brookings Institution meeting. One person who influenced the emir's thinking at the time is Azmi Bishara , a prominent former Arab Israeli MP, exiled in Qatar (like many other Arab dissidents) after the Israeli government accused him of passing information to the Lebanese group Hizbollah during Israel's onslaught on Lebanon in 2006 - a charge Bishara denies. An adviser to the emir and the crown prince, Bishara has become something of a court intellectual in Doha. He is said to have been involved in the formation of the Syrian National Coalition, now the main opposition umbrella group, and to have been used to "test" opposition figures. He, too, had known Bashar al-Assad well, but then became an avid enthusiast of Arab revolts and the people's thirst for democracy. Writing in July 2011, Bishara said that Assad could have stayed in power had he led the reforms that people wanted: "The regime chose not to change, and so the people will change it." (Bishara was not available for comment.) Although the emir did not make his position public until Saudi Arabia broke its silence over Syria in August 2011, the conviction took hold in Qatar throughout that bloody first summer that Syria's was as much a revolution as anywhere else in the region. Following the pattern of the other Arab uprisings, Qatar's instinct was to bet on the opposition. In January 2012, the emir told a US television network that Arab troops should be sent to Syria "to stop the killings". Doha's leaders were particularly emboldened by the revolt in Libya, where Qatar had played the lead Arab role in the Nato-led intervention. Although they knew that Assad's downfall would not be as easy as Muammer Gaddafi's, they expected western partners would eventually step in on the side of the opposition. One senior Qatari official suggested in late 2012 that Syria would go the way of Libya, but over a much longer term. Assad's removal, after all, served the strategic purpose of weakening Iran, his closest regional ally. So far at least, this gamble has proved a miscalculation. "We didn't want to take the lead. We begged a lot of countries to start to take the lead and we'll be in the back seat. But we find ourselves in the front seat," lamented prime minister bin Jassim recently. Even within the Arab world, Qatar found much stronger resistance to action than was the case with Libya. "Before we get disappointed by the west, we should ask ourselves as an Arab nation what we've done - it is an Arab issue in the first place," says Attiyah, the minister for foreign affairs. In the years before the Arab uprisings, Qatar had cultivated its role as a mediator, capable of talking to all sides on the divisions that polarised the Middle East. It hosted the US's biggest military air base in the region, while maintaining cordial relations with Iran; it held contacts with Israel while simultaneously backing the Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon's Hizbollah. On Syria, Qatar soon emerged as one of the few angry voices at Arab summits, pushing for a tougher line. "In Syria, Qatar became an active protagonist," says a western diplomat. Having worked to become a kind of Norway of the Gulf, he adds, it also wanted to be "the Gulf version of the UK and France, and you can't be both at the same time". . . . Ahfad al-Rasoul is a source of envy among other brigades fighting in Syria. A relatively new player put together from several fighting groups, it is often linked to the gas riches of Qatar. Ahfad al-Rasoul is one of the few fighting coalitions in Syria that can be considered "effective", boasts Khaled, a smartly dressed, laptop-carrying "liaison" officer for the group, interviewed by the FT in southern Turkey, near the Syrian border. Not so, says Abu Samer, a commander from a rival group, who complains about shortages of weapons and ammunition. "If I was getting 15 per cent of what they're getting, I'd do a lot," he grumbles. Though Khaled insists his battalion's good fortunes are thanks to a mix of funding sources, others such as Abu Samer see the hand of Qatar at work. Supporting the armed rebellion was the inevitable next stage of Qatar's deepening involvement in Syria. By early 2012, as peaceful protests gave way to an armed opposition, Qatar was scouring around for light weaponry, buying arms in Libya and in eastern European states, and flying them to Turkey, where intelligence services helped deliver them across the border. At first, say people with direct knowledge of the arms shipments, Qatar worked through Turkish intelligence to identify recipients, and then, as Saudi Arabia joined the covert military effort, through Lebanese mediators. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, which tracks arms transfers, says that between April 2012 and March this year, more than 70 military cargo flights from Qatar landed in Turkey. Elizabeth O'Bagy, an analyst at the US Institute for the Study of War, which has published extensive studies of Syria's fragmented rebel movement, says that as the conflict progressed, the Qataris worked through members of the exiled Muslim Brotherhood to identify rebel factions that should be supported. For example, she says, that is how they linked up with the Farouq brigades, one of the largest and more mainstream factions. Meanwhile, opposition sources say the Qataris have also sent their own special forces to find insurgent groups, and people involved in the weapons business say a Qatari general has been the point man on arms deliveries, travelling to the "operations" room that was set up first in Istanbul and then in Ankara. However, it is difficult to point to rebel brigades that are exclusively Qatari-funded or backed. Ahfad al-Rasoul, for example, is also thought to be receiving support from Saudi Arabia. Equally, the erratic and limited nature of weapons shipments means that even recipients of Qatari support are not always aware of Doha's role. Mahmoud Marrouch, a young fighter from Liwaa al-Tawhid, the rural Aleppo group that is believed to have been a major recipient of Qatari arms, says Qatar is like the rest of the world - promising weapons but not delivering. What the fighters have, he says, was seized from regime bases, or purchased on the black market. "The Qataris and the Saudis need a green light from America to help us," he adds. A rebel leader in the northern Aleppo province, who works with Liwaa al-Tawhid, says he has also received a Saudi intermediary who goes around rebel-held areas distributing funds. "Groups get funding from both Qatar and Saudi Arabia and they deceive sponsors sometimes," comments O'Bagy. Indeed, if Qatar is, as its detractors say, seeking to build up a proxy force in Syria to implement its regional agenda, it is doing so in an environment which is not conducive to either loyalty or cohesion. With so many different outside sources of sponsorship and no stable organisational structures, rebel groups lurch from alliance to alliance and continually rebrand themselves in the search for support. Ironically, although the relationship between Riyadh and Doha has long been characterised by mutual suspicion, in many ways they have worked very closely on Syria. However, a crucial division over the Muslim Brotherhood has undoubtedly led to the pursuit of divergent agendas on the Syrian battlefield, with harmful consequences for an opposition in desperate need of unity. For the Saudis, the handful of secular rebel factions, plus the Salafi groups that espouse a stricter Wahabi Islam practised in Saudi Arabia, are vastly preferable to the Brotherhood, a more organised political group and therefore a greater political threat. "The Saudis say 'No to the Brotherhood,'" says Riad al-Shaqfa, the leader of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. Qataris, on the other hand, are "playing a positive role", though Shaqfa insists that his group's funding is from its own members, not from Doha. Khalid al-Attiyah denies any tensions with Saudi Arabia, saying co-operation is much closer than people assume, with daily consultations. However, rebel sources and analysts say that by September last year, the rivalry had intensified to the point where the Qataris and Saudis were creating separate military alliances and structures. As complaints poured in from opposition leaders and western officials, the two states agreed to bring the structures together under the supreme military command, headed by the western-backed general Selim Idriss . However, commanders who work with Idriss say that neither country is following through with its promise to bolster the supreme military command, instead continuing to work independently. One reason could be that the Gulf states worry that their limited supplies would be distributed too broadly by the supreme command, instead of reaching only the most effective factions. But the behaviour has bred resentment. "Qatar and Saudi Arabia ... are playing out their rivalries here, they are dividing people," says Abdul Jabbar Akaidi, the head of the Aleppo revolutionary military council. Speaking from one of his bases on the Syrian side of the border with Turkey, he adds: "People will remember those who gave without having an agenda. The Syrians are clever, they know when there is an agenda." . . . By late 2012 a new factor was emerging in Syria, one that had the potential to complicate Qatar's relationship with the west. The extremist group Jabhat al-Nusrah was gaining ground, playing a prominent role in dislodging the regime from military facilities in northern Syria. In December, the US felt sufficiently alarmed to add Nusrah to its global terrorist list. Concerned that Qatar's level of tolerance for radical Islamists was higher than theirs, western governments also wanted safeguards in place to ensure that weapons did not end up in the hands of jihadi groups like Nusrah. The problem, says one former senior US official, was that "the Qataris felt it didn't matter who you give to, what's important is to bring down Bashar." According to him, the objective in Washington became "to keep the Qataris from doing whatever they want". So the US instituted a "consultative process". Two "operations" rooms that oversee weapons deliveries were set up, one in Turkey, the other, more recently, in Jordan. They include representatives from nearly a dozen countries. The Qataris, says the former US official, were co-operative. Yet allegations that the Qataris have - directly or indirectly - helped Jabhat al-Nusrah have not gone away. At least one Arab government recently said as much, although experts on jihadi movements say the extremist group's funding comes from al-Qaeda in Iraq and from private donors in the Gulf, not from governments. Yet even with the "consultative process" in place, leakage might be inevitable, whether through the funding of rebels or through the massive charitable contributions from the Gulf that reach Syria. "Because the Free Syrian Army groups work so closely with non-FSA groups these weapons are spreading just because they are fighting side by side - and maybe the groups trade arms with each other as well," says Eliot Higgins, who examines and records weapons used in the Syrian conflict on his well-followed Brown Moses blog. Attiyah says Doha has never backed Nusrah, and blames the international community's inaction on Syria for allowing it to flourish. "Is it the Security Council's delay in taking a firm resolution against Bashar al-Assad and his regime that has made emerge? In my opinion, yes," he says. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim, the prime minister, is even more dismissive of allegations of Qatari support for extremists, joking in his Brookings presentation that such rumours are spread by jealous neighbours to tease Qatar. Beneath the quips, however, are signs that Qatar's influence over military supplies to the rebellion may be waning, as its role in weapons deliveries takes second place to that of Saudi Arabia. Riyadh has more developed networks to source weapons and it has been working closely with Jordan to bolster rebel groups in southern Syria that are not tied to Nusrah. . . . Many Syrians have probably never heard of Mustafa Sabbagh, though he is considered the most powerful man in the political opposition. The owner of a building material and contracting company, the 48-year-old secretary-general of the National Coalition lived in Saudi Arabia for much of the past decade. He doesn't make many speeches, or issue statements, but he does oversee the coalition's budget, to which the Qataris are the biggest donors, and is responsible, as one western official says, "for writing the cheques". While seen by both friends and detractors as a shrewd man who appealed to Qatar officials' business-minded attitude, Sabbagh has come under criticism for supposedly using his position to control the opposition and further Qatari influence. Tensions between him and some of the secular members of the coalition exploded into the open recently after the controversial election of an interim prime minister, Ghassan Hitto , in March. The row over Hitto's appointment was so bitter it caused tension between Qatar and Saudi Arabia and pushed the Saudis to become more active in opposition politics, which they had largely left to the Qataris. According to pro-Saudi opposition figures, negotiations are now under way to resolve the dispute. Qatar's involvement with Syria's political opposition has generated even more controversy than its support of rebel groups. The dissidents are a fractious assortment of cliques, but they play an important role in shaping international policy. While it was Turkey that helped form the first credible opposition umbrella group, the Syrian National Council , in August 2011, Qatar quickly embraced it and contributed to its funding. The SNC, however, fell victim to infighting, which gave the Muslim Brotherhood, the only organised bloc within it, the greatest influence. As secular voices began dropping out of the SNC, western nations, led by the US, pressured the Qataris to help form a broader opposition based on an initiative proposed by Riad Seif, a well-respected Syrian dissident. The new body, the National Coalition, was announced in Doha in November 2012. It was no secret that Qatari officials were less convinced of the need to improve the SNC. Their view appeared to be that dominance of the Muslim Brotherhood was neither as great as claimed, nor an issue. A former US official who tracked the process of the creation of the coalition said dealing with the Qataris at the time was like a "war of attrition". However, claims of Qatari dominance of the opposition persisted, even after the coalition was created. True, the Muslim Brotherhood was no longer the main component, but a new bloc of more than a dozen members, brought in by Sabbagh as representatives of local communities in Syria, sparked new disagreements. It was seen as another bloc that was loyal to Qatar. Each of these members was supposed to represent a local council in Syria's different provinces, and together the councils received $8m from Qatar soon after the formation of the coalition. Qatar was also the first - and possibly the only - country to provide funding for the coalition budget, to the tune of $20m, and it delivered the first $10m out of a pledged $100m package for the organisation's new humanitarian assistance unit. In an interview with the FT, Sabbagh said that the Qatar label that has stuck to him is inaccurate and unfair. Peppering his words with praise for Saudi Arabia's contribution to the Syrian cause, he says his relationship with Qatar is confined to what he calls "logistics" support for a business forum that he founded after the revolt against Assad broke out. The forum had mobilised funds from merchants inside and outside Syria to support the Free Syrian Army. Sabbagh insists that the representatives of local councils that he invited into the coalition were an attempt, even if imperfect, to raise the representation of people inside the country in the main opposition front. "It's inevitable because there are no elections. It was an experience that needed maturing," he says. Attiyah, meanwhile, says he has no closer relationship with Sabbagh than anyone else in the coalition. He also points out that the coalition with its various components, including the local representatives, was not created by Qatar alone but with the help and blessing of Arab and western officials. . . . In Syria itself, the number of dead continues to rise and Bashar al-Assad is still stubbornly clinging on to power. Whether Qatar's venture into Syrian opposition politics will have any returns will depend on whether Syria survives as a country - something that is by no means assured. Perhaps for the Qatari emir, the demise of Assad will be sufficient satisfaction. In theory, Qatar could also emerge with multiple points of influence through Islamists and loyal brigades. But it has already created many enemies inside Syria, and not just among pro-regime supporters. So torn apart is the fabric of Syria's society, and so radicalised and suspicious its battered population, that the Qataris are more likely to find that they are neither thanked - nor even wanted - there. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a0c_1368800021 m16carbine How Qatar seized control of the Syrian revolution syra, syrian civil war, qatar Thu, 16 May 2013 14:57:23 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b4e_1368730103 funkdelux121 There are no branches in the Palestinian territory so the only way is to import meals via tunnels linking the besieged land to Egypt These have also been used to smuggle arms as well as other goods. Palestinians desperate for a fix of the Colonel Sanders treat pay more than double and wait up to three hours for their meal. That's if the delivery boy hasn't been held up by Hamas guards. A firm called Al-Yamama charges lb18 for a family meal costing lb7.50 in Egypt. ($30 USD) Coming through: The delivery gets dragged through tunnel A spokesman said: "Sometimes Hamas checks meals, sometimes the taxi picking up Sinai orders is late." But Palestinians, with some of the most tightly controlled borders on Earth, don't care. Student Abou Fares, 22, said: "It's delicious, even if it's cold." http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b4e_1368730103 funkdelux121 Buckets Of KFC Chicken Smuggled Through Tunnel In Gaza Strip For $30 WTF, KFC, Egypt, Gaza Strip, fast food, fried chicken Wed, 15 May 2013 13:28:34 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=046_1368638184 gunther7222 Aired October 9 2006 topics: axis of evil,al Hezbollah and hamas,resistance,iraq insurgency,terrorists,uk and us,israel,haariri http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=046_1368638184 gunther7222 John Simpson interviews bashar al assad (2006) syria,assad,israel,golan heights,lebanon,united nations,syrian intelligence,blowback,al qaeda Tue, 14 May 2013 17:52:06 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cb0_1368567832 aydeo Jibril Rajoub, a Fatah Central Committee member who recently visited Lebanon, said in an interview with the Hezbollah affiliated television network Al Mayadeen, "We the Palestinians are the enemies of Israel." In the interview, which took place earlier this month, Rajoub emphasized that Fatah now supports popular resistance, but has not abandoned the idea of armed resistance. "As the people of the Fatah movement, we keep resistance on the agenda in all its forms," he said. "At present, we are satisfied by the popular resistance," Rajoub added, but explained, "We the Palestinians are a source of concern for Israel. We are in this country, and this country is ours. They are our enemy and our battle is against them." The interviewer of Al Mayadeen, a network associated with Iran and with the Assad regime in Syria, criticized the policy of the Palestinian Authority, and in response Rajoub responded, "Our war is against the Israeli occupation. Our main enemy, not just as Palestinians, but Arabs and Muslims, is Israel and the Israeli occupation," he added. At the height of the interview, when the subject of American efforts to revive the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians were raised, the interviewer asked: "Will you resume the negotiation game?" Rajoub, who appeared agitated at the mocking tone, replied quickly that there would not be a return to negotiations without international decisions taken within a limited time frame and with the Israeli promise to freeze all "one-sided" steps related to Jerusalem, the separation barrier, settlements and the release of prisoners. "Until now we have not had nuclear weapons," he declared, "but in the name of Allah, if we had nuclear weapons, we'd be using them." Rajoub, one of several Palestinian leaders who signed the Geneva Initiative, had stated on previous occasions that he was interested in peace with Israel. During his visit to Lebanon, he met with the Iranian ambassador to Beirut, Ghazanfar Roknabadi, and they discussed the subject of Israel's actions against the holy places of Islam and Christianity, as well as reconciliation efforts with Hamas. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4379988,00.html http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cb0_1368567832 aydeo Jibril Rajoub, Palestinian high official: In the name of Allah,If we had nuclear weapons, we would use them (against Israel) Jibril Rajoub,Palestinian official,Nuclear weapons,Hezbholla network Tue, 14 May 2013 14:16:14 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cf0_1368554995 Detroit Iron Published: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 6:06 PM They are in Syria, Iraq, Pakistan etc. What will be their next step?Up to 100 Dutch Muslims are currently fighting in Syria. The Netherlands is the biggest supplier of European jihadist fighters, and most of them are members of pro al Qaeda Al Nusra movement which wants to create an Islamic state in Syria. A recent Gatestone Institute paper by Soeren Kern gives the numbers: 1.000 Europeans are currently fighting against Bashar el Assad's regime in Syria. The U.K. government thinks there are about 100 British Muslim fighters in Syria. It is like during the war in Yugoslavia, when 6,000 Muslims travelled to Bosnia to join the war against the Serbs. Imad al-Hussein, a medical student from Syria with a beard, became the public face of these mujahedeen. In Iraq many European muslims detonated themselves against US troops, Iraqi soldiers and Shia pilgrims. In the Waziristan controlled by the Taliban there was a "German village", a little town inhabitated by Muslims from Europe's economic powerhouse. In a propaganda video, the presenter shows a beautiful village, clean and tidy, with schools, hospitals, and invites the Germans to enlist for "a glorious death." Some Islamist cells are trying to build a "pure Islamic environment" in the heart of Europe. One was discovered in Artigat, a bucolic village in the French Pyrenees. Isolated from the rest of the world, the families emulated the Mohammedans of Saudi Arabia. Every year 30.000 Pakistanis with British passport between 18 and 35 years are flying to Pakistan. Many never return back. There is a "mini civil war" in Afghanistan fought between British soldiers and British Muslims who joined the Taliban. The number two of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Mohammed Moumou, nom de guerre of Abu Qaswarah and killed by the Americans, was also known as "the Skani", which in Arabic means "the Swede." He owned an import-export company, he was married to a Swedish woman converted to Islam and the leader of the Muslim center of Brandbergen, the largest of Stockholm. Muriel Degauque had a normal childhood in a small Belgian town before embracing Islam and ending her life as a suicide bomber in Iraq. Already two Danish Muslims have been killed as part of the "rebel forces" in Syria. More than 1,000 Muslims from across Europe are currently active as Islamic jihadists in Syria. The Dutch government calls it "Jihad tourism". Images of jihadists in Syria speaking Dutch language surfaced on the internet (the images were apparently taken in the neighborhood of Aleppo). Meanwhile, European Muslims are celebrating "Martyrs' Weddings" for jihadists killed in Syria. The Middle East Media Research Institute just published photographs of one suchwedding, held in France to symbolize the deceased's wedding to the virgins of Paradise. If Assad's "heretical" regime falls, these Europe Muslims will join the Palestinian Arab war against the Jewish people next, maybe using the terror Hamastan in Gaza. For the moment they "just" fundraise for Palestinian Islamists, they incite anti-Semitism through televisions, sermons and publications and join the sea flottillas. Next time they will embrace Hamas, the PFLP or the salafists from the ruins of Gush Katif. The model is that of the Italian "pacifist" Vittorio Arrigoni. These Muslims are the product of European racist multiculturalism, decadent secularism and old hatred for the Jewish people. We will not be surprised if one day, these new Europeans of Islamic origins will try to expel the descendants of the Holocaust from the land of Israel. A Jihad in blue jeans. E l Pais, Le Monde and The Guardian will run an editorial justifying their holy expedition under the title "Peace and Love for Palestine". http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/13300#.UZJ-HKLgOSo http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cf0_1368554995 Detroit Iron Europe's Muslims Are Fighting the World Jihad War Jihad Sat, 04 May 2013 11:13:14 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b96_1367680251 Skar5 Tahrir Square Friday Sermon: Egyptian Preacher Calls to Kill Hamas Members in Egypt and to Send President Morsi to Jail - March 22, 2013 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b96_1367680251 Skar5 Egyptian Preacher Calls to Kill <span class="highlight">Hamas</span> Members in Egypt Egypt, Mursi, Preacher, Egyptian, Tahrir Square, Hamas Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:33:05 -0400 http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=364_1366821106 USMCSniper title http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=364_1366821106 USMCSniper <span class="highlight">Hamas</span> Comander's Home Hit With Israeli Airstrike Hamas, Israel, War